Prep

Alright. How many times have I said that I'd do the master cleanse? I bought the book (back in 2006), read someone's blog, ticked off the list of countless celebrities to embrace it but FINALLY it's time to do the damn thing. I made excuse after excuse and after years of procrastinating (I love procrastinating) I'm biting the bullet. The final push was actually finding an app in the App store on my IPhone :) This app is pretty nice. It gives detailed instructions and day by day tracking of progress.

The reasoning for this? Other than needing to cleanse my system of years of alcohol, Steak and Shake and whatever else I've tortured it with, its about Vegas. Las Vegas, Memorial Day weekend, an epic girls trip that's been a long time coming. I promised myself that I'd step off that plane at least 20lbs lighter and bust out a monokini at the Planet Hollywood pool.

Don't think I haven't been attempting to shed some pounds other ways. I took my Target obsession to a new level this year when I discovered the fitness aisle. I bought Tae Bo, Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred and her No More Trouble Zones along with some adorable baby blue weights and this creepy sweat band thing that goes around the waist and induces gross amounts of sweating. It's not enough, for me anyway. I need that push off the edge. Its like in high school swim gym when I was the LAST person to dive off the board and the teacher held up the entire class until I got the guts to jump.

So with my Sin City motivation and some technology to assist me its time to jump, and here it goes....

What We're Working With

I went to Whole Foods and stocked up on the supplies. The cute check out guy suggested that it's best to get a LOT of lemons because they don't make all that much juice. Out of a bag of about 10 lemons I got almost 2 cups of juice. But anywho, here is what you need.

• Non-Iodized Sea Salt (for the morning salt water flush, yummm)

• Cayenne Pepper :(

• Organic Lemons

• Grade B Maple Syrup (I figured Whole Foods was the best bet for getting some quality stuff that wasn't Aunt Jemima's. Be prepared to pay a little more because apparently the bad weather really damaged the maple syrup harvest, so they're charging more)

• Senna Tea (I had to search pretty hard for this in their vast tea aisle. I expected something to just say SENNA TEA but it does not. My cleanse app suggested two brands but Whole Foods is weird about brands but apparently The Republic of Tea has a whole line of teas with a purpose, which I thought was cool. This one is appropriately named Get It Going and does just that...)

The app (as I'll refer to the master cleanse guide app on my IPhone from here on out) said to drink the tea before bed the night before you start so I'll be posting again tonight!